Toby Wollin @ 11

Tom Reynolds (Buffalo area) is another bonehead – he’s quoted that he voted against it because he’s concerned that the children of illegal aliens would get healthcare. Really.

I’m speechless!

Try this tack to knock some sense into boneheads. Here’s copy of what I wrote Regula yesterday:

I urge you to support the sCHIP children’s health care bill now before the House of Representatives.

President Bush has threatened to veto this critically important legislation, so it will need to be passed by a veto-proof majority, in order to be adopted.

The President seems not only elitist and blind to the need for comprehensive health care for the sake of the children and their families, but callous and indifferent to the very real threat to our whole population, should the nation’s young be properly immunized against catastrophic diseases.

Bush is ignoring very real potential danger from the rapid spread of epidemics in this country, unless our young in the population receive proper care. Without passage of sCHIP, this horrible possibility is all too real.

Please Vote FOR sCHIP.

and then today, since my repubble Ccritter actually voted FOR it:

THANK YOU for your YEA vote on the SCHIP bill.

I hope you will do your best to convince your colleagues, who voted in the negative, to support an override of Pres. Bush’s threatened veto of the legislation, should that become necessary.

The SCHIP legislation is vitally important to the health of our whole nation. Not only is it the only humane choice but, without proper health care, children lacking necessary immunization represent a clear and dangerous breeding ground for any epidemic that might reach our shores in the future. In this day and age, with world-wide air-travel the norm, this is a real danger. (snip)

Yeah. scare the pants off ‘em, if necessary.
Just don’t give up on him/her, because SCHIP did pass, after all, and will return if vetoed.
Keep those Ccritters on the griddle unless and until the bill’s totally dead.

Tom Reynolds (Buffalo area) is another bonehead – he’s quoted that he voted against it because he’s concerned that the children of illegal aliens would get healthcare. Really.

I’m speechless!

Once more latino children are the new untouchables. Under the bill passed, legal immigrant kids would have to wait five years for coverage. And while the brown reps voted for the thing anyway, 8 democrats voted against. I first voted in 1956 at a time when you had to be 21. After God knows how many years I have worked and voted as a liberal Dem, I have finally had it, given this and the events of last week.

I’m not normally given to profanity, but it feels good to say fuck the Democrats, and adios.

Instead, let’s dig in and try to change that situation in the Senate version, then see to it the change is incorporated into the final bill as sent to Herr Boosh. eh? Please don’t give up hope. I’m with you on this, and I’m sure many others are also.

OMG. Regula (R-OH) voted Yea!

I’m gonna fire off another e-mail to him to THANK him for his vote for the children, and ask him to work to influence his colleagues to do likewise.
;->

I’m not normally given to profanity, but it feels good to say fuck the Democrats, and adios.

Yes, it would be nice to hang this issue around the Republicans’ necks next year — but it would be nicer to find the 25 votes needed to override.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..163132/429

If it sounds familiar, it’s essentially what John Murtha’s been advocating for any Iraq-withdrawal bills: Just keep bringing them up, over and over again, until Bush signs them or the Republicans decide that they like their jobs better than Bush.